A woman pleaded guilty yesterday to sexual abuse of a 15-year-old fellow patient in a Westchester psychiatric hospital, according to the Westchester County district attorney, Jeanine F. Pirro. Prosecutors said that last August, the woman, Wanda Green, 18, of Yonkers, and another roommate subjected...

State health officials and the local police are investigating accusations that patients undergoing psychiatric or substance-abuse treatment at St. Vincent's Westchester Hospital in Harrison have been sexually abused or beaten by other patients, officials said on Friday. The police in Harrison...

The Roman Catholic diocese led by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been held in contempt of court for refusing to release the mental health records of a retired priest accused of child sexual abuse. The judge ordered the diocese, in...

Connecticut's child advocate, in the first lawsuit she has filed since being appointed in 2000, sued the state's child welfare agency this week, saying it mishandled a boy who was sexually abused as a young child and spent a third of his life shuttled between programs that never helped him. The...

A former Brooklyn pediatrician took beach vacations to Mexico and Central America not to enjoy sun and sand, but rather to have sex with young boys at a resort for pedophiles, a federal prosecutor told a Manhattan jury yesterday as the man's trial began. The former doctor, Stefan Irving, 56, of...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston agreed today to pay $85 million to settle almost 550 lawsuits by people who say they were sexually abused by priests. The settlement is the largest ever by an American diocese to resolve sexual abuse cases. The deal was reached after three days of intense...

THE teacher created a sanctuary, the mother said, a place for her son where music reigned and middle-school bullies were kept at bay. But that illusion was shattered when the police arrested the music teacher, accusing him of arranging through the Internet to have sex with someone he thought was a...

The parents of a deeply depressed man who said that as a youth he was sexually molested by a Roman Catholic lay brother have sued the Los Angeles Archdiocese for damages resulting from their son's suicide last year. The lawsuit, filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is being brought...